Terms and Conditions of Academic Usage
Valid from 01.01.2025
The following conditions apply to programs and licenses that contain the terms “Academic”, “Student” or “Teaching”:
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The licensee must belong to an academic institution. This includes in particular professors, employees and students of academic institutions. Academic institutions are, in particular, universities and colleges, as well as all institutions that focus on education.
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The analyses performed with the academic licenses must be non-proprietary work.
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The academic license may not be used for competitive analyses (e.g. benchmarking) or for commercial activities, including consulting services.
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Support is provided for the Academic Programs at the sole discretion of the Licensor.
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Academic licenses may only be used for non-proprietary research, student teaching, student projects and student demonstrations.
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If Licensee uses the Academic Programs for non-proprietary research projects, Licensee will submit a case study at Licensor's request prior to the end of the License Term. The case study will be written in English, include a title and abstract, and include:
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Purpose of the study
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Approach used to conduct the study
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Results achieved
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Conclusion on how the results achieved fulfilled the purpose of the study
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Assessment of how the academic license contributed to the study
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3 Color graphics of the model and networks
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Use for proprietary research and commercial use of the academic licenses are expressly excluded. This includes in particular
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Commercial or proprietary design, design validation or design evaluation work
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Commercial or proprietary manufacturing engineering work
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Commercial or proprietary research
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Consulting work performed by academic students, faculty members or academic client personnel
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Training of employees of commercial companies
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When writing a technical document, white paper, article, thesis, presentation, book or website, you may need to reference i-ROM or its products. In all cases, authors should make sure that the reference is specific and clear and that any interested reader can easily find the referenced information. There are also certain legal requirements that authors must adhere to. The guidelines below under Product Name, Fair Use and Copyright and Trademarks are to be followed by authors.
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Product name
Please include the product name in the abstract of the paper/presentation. As the i-ROM MODELBUILDER Toolbox is updated regularly, the release version should be added.
Example of a product reference: i-ROM® MODELBUILDER, Release M2025-1.001
Please note that the User manual and the Online help for the software are protected by copyright. You are welcome to paraphrase or summarize documentation texts in your own words if you indicate the source of this information.
Example of a documentation citation: i-.ROM®, Release M2025-1.001, i-ROM MODELBUILDER Help, Modal analysis, i-ROM GmbH
Private messages from i-ROM (such as answers from support) may not be cited.
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Fair use and copyright
Academic users of i-ROM software may make fair use of screenshots of our products in their published works. This includes, but is not limited to, final project reports, conference posters, theses, research papers, textbooks, text manuals, video demonstrations, web pages, and social media channel postings. You must include the following credit on all materials that include screenshots of i-ROM products: “Images courtesy of i-ROM GmbH.”
We also encourage our academic student teams to print, etch or otherwise imprint the i-ROM logo on their work, device, machine or similar items as long as the i-ROM logo is used unaltered and appears as a positive endorsement of i-ROM and the i-ROM software.
Here you can find high-resolution i-ROM logo image.
Note that you may not use a screenshot of an i-ROM product, product name, or the i-ROM company logo for work that is considered competitive evaluation or benchmarking against commercial products from other vendors.
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Trademarks
i-ROM protects its product names as trademarks. Authors and other third parties referencing an i-ROM product must use the registered trademark or brand upon first use. It is not required to use it in subsequent references.
We recommend that you print a copy of the agreement for your records, as such documents may not be available online at a later time.